Before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, dedicating 20,000 troops to domestic response -- a nearly sevenfold increase in five years -- "would have been extraordinary to the point of unbelievable," Paul McHale, assistant defense secretary for homeland defense, said in remarks last month at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. But the realization that civilian authorities may be overwhelmed in a catastrophe prompted "a fundamental change in military culture," he said.

But homeland defense is doing nothing to stop the creation of new terrorists or to prevent bad guys from attacking.

If They Wanted to Stop Terrorism . . .

Remember, the war on terror is a hoax which is actually weakening national security (see this, this, this and this).

The government is also wasting resources harassing reporters, children and other innocent American citizens instead of real terrorists (see this, this and this).

And - even if you somehow believe that the 9/11 Commission conducted an unbiased and thorough investigation and that the government was honest with the Commission (in which case, I have some swampland to sell you) - remember that the Commission made numerous recommendations on how to prevent future terrorist attacks, many of them simple and inexpensive to implement, but the Bush administration has has failed to do so (and see this and this). Moreover, they are actively blocking efforts to do so.

In other words, is the government arguing that - once the horse is out of the barn, and terrorists set off some weapons of mass destruction - then the troops will help, but the government will not lift a finger to prevent attacks in the first place?

If the government is really concerned about protecting U.S. citizens, it should:

(1) Not start any more imperial wars of conquest and stop torturing innocent people (which, for some strange reason, really pisses off the locals and may create real terrorists)

(2) Fund law enforcement efforts to locate and arrest bad guys

(3) Take real steps to secure our country by doing things like checking incoming cargo, protecting nuclear and other sensitive facilities, etc.

Deploying troops on U.S. soil violates the Constitution, moves us further down the road towards martial law, and is ridiculous - even judged on the basis of the government's own arguments.

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This dovetails nicely when arguing against the governments 9-11 'official' story. No need to bring up fake planes, no plane in Pentagon, controlled demolition. Simply ask anyone who believes the Fed propaganda, "Did they shut down the border?" If it had been a real 'attack', the borders would have shut down immediately. But it wasn't and they didn't. No, for some strange reason the government thought it would be much easier to strip search Americans at the airports and institute an entire layer of bureaucracy onto the public than simply giving the pilots a handgun. These kinds of questions can easily lead one to believe that this has all been a setup from the beginning. IOW, as outlined in this very fine article, the government is only serious about preventing domestic attacks, not foreign ones.

When Americans start seeing the military on their highways, outside their supermarkets, and outside their bedroom windows it will be too late. Colin Powell's "prediction" of a "crisis" is due in a little over a month. Americans have already willingly accepted the possibility of a chemical attack to happen thanks to the nonchalance of a new report claiming such just a few days ago. A disaster of great enough magnitude would undoubtedly help Americans accept their new policed neighborhoods, 8pm National Curfew, and "Freedom Camps."

The at-home mission does not take the place of scheduled combat-zone deployments and will take place during the so-called dwell time a unit gets to reset and regenerate after a deployment. web designer

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